That discussion about the structuring of the home directories is nothing hurd-specific at all. First it is something, the applications have to take care of - and except for a limited set of tool, most programs are written for UN*I-compatible systems in general.
Since forcing app-developers to do something in a certain way can't work, it would be a thing to be enforced by the distribution, i.e. Debian would have to adopt it as a policy and the packagers would then have to change the paths in the .deb packages. Debian GNU/HURD should not try do things too much different from Debian GNU/Linux - that would just mean slowing down the package-porting process. Therefore, if one really succeeds in convincing the Debian community to adopt that policy, that's fine. Anyhow - I do not believe you'll get a majority for that idea... -- -- ______________________________________________________ -- JESUS CHRIST IS LORD! -- To Him, even that machine here has to obey... -- -- _________________________________Norbert "Nobbi" Nemec -- Hindenburgstr. 44 ... D-91054 Erlangen ... Germany -- eMail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel: +49-(0)-9131-204180